Equity-Focused Leadership: How School Leaders Can Accelerate Student Learning (and Keep Great Teachers). Closing the Representation Gap: A Series of Papers on Reshaping Educational Leadership for the Future

Research confirms that all students, including students of color and their white peers, benefit from seeing diverse teachers and school leaders working together to replace inequitable practices with school cultures anchored in respect, high expectations, and trusting relationships. This kind of leadership also creates the kind of conditions in which high-quality teachers want to stay in their roles, at their schools. School leaders who lead for equity are continuously learning and pushing themselves to grow into more effective change agents. This paper examines five proven equity-focused leadership actions that educators can start implementing in their schools. [For the executive summary of this series, "Closing the Representation Gap: A Series of Papers on Reshaping Educational Leadership for the Future," see ED625674.]